Serpent Spec

new serpent here was just wonder what race spec to take as i've just started?I'm a mhun and im tossing up between con focus or dex focus? if i take a con focus it will lower my dex which affects my attacks correct?

Learn Subterfuge until trans, generally, then other skills (picking up selfishness in survival can be nice). You do not need anything in venom until later, you get a battlerage skill early to break shields.

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Learn Subterfuge until trans, generally, then other skills (picking up selfishness in survival can be nice). You do not need anything in venom until later, you get a battlerage skill early to break shields.

If you send "kill target" instead of "bite target" while not wielding a whip, you don't have to secrete sumac or camus and I am fairly sure both go through shield.

You can also just flay denizen shields, since they can only shield once every 10 seconds now, as opposed to shield spamming until they get bored/die. Flay is really fast, and lets you conserve rage for more damage, being that rage attacks are generally superior to bashing ones.

Without any artie dirk and 15 DEX, you're looking at 2.7 base DStab speed, or ~2.43s DStabs with Nimble. You can work with this, it will just take a bit more time to get ahead of herbs. 16 Dex brings you to ~2.34s with Nimble, which is better. Artie Dirks are a pretty huge boon if you're considering buying arties for combat down the line, but aren't necessary.

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